I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.
Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his bare flesh; he fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.
He has stripped my glory from me and taken the crown from my head.
He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
then let the enemy pursue and overtake me, trample my life to the ground, and lay my soul in the dust. Selah
All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
do not lift up your horn on high or speak with insolent neck.”
On that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and putting on sackcloth,
to put one’s mouth to the dust (there may yet be hope),
Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in my God. My mouth derides my enemies because I rejoice in your victory.
The Lord! His adversaries will be shattered; the Most High will thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the power of his anointed.”